This programme aims to assist and support women-led community based organisations in identifying their assets and building their capacity in order to bring about sustained change in their communities.
Rural women are often marginalised and formally unemployed while working tireless hours as home based carers, early childhood development workers and advice office workers without stipends or an income. Coping with gender inequalities that manifest through HIV and AIDS, gender based violence and economic disempowerment; the need to support local women community based organisations is crucial to sustainable change in these communities.
DOCKDA’s Women’s Leadership Programme has a two-pronged focus:
- capacity building of local community based organisations (CBOs) and individual leaders through training, skills development and mentoring with the Asset Based Community Development approach
- micro-grantmaking of both monetary grants and grants in the form of goods and services to the CBOs. Grants are used to build office premises, repair existing premises, pay stipends to home based carers, purchase office equipment and ITC, start income generation projects and buy supplies for the organisations.
Our Programmes
Women’s Leadership Programme
Providing assistance and support to women-led community based organisations in identifying their assets and building their capacity in order to bring about sustained change in their communities. More …
Girls’ and Women’s Rights to Health and Equal Education
Aimed at improving girls’ and women’s access to health and education, and awareness of their rights to healthy living and an equal education. More…
Food Security And Wellness
This programme aims to enable community based organisations (CBO’s) to provide a sustainable source of vegetables to the vulnerable patients that they serve. More…
Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Programme
This programme aims to strengthen the fight against Gender Based Violence (GBV) and Gender Inequality by providing awareness and resources to children, youth, educators, parents, community based organisations, social services and community members of both genders on what GBV is and how to stop it. More…